I was an appellate lawyer. I've seen some really dumb oral arguments and read some bad opinions, in fact my state supreme court was a basket case the the degree that John Grisham wrote a book about one weird episode. This post is not about that.
The history of the Supreme Court has a few obvious low points. The Dred Scott case. The series of cases where the Court made segregation legal (Plessy), minimized the 14th amendment (The slaughterhouse cases), and killed the Civil Rights act of 1875 (Civil Rights Cases). Bush v. Gore is the latest absurdity, which is probably the third worst of these three judicial debacles but deserves to be on the list just because the opinion was atrocious. Any time a court makes explicit that the reasoning in the opinion isn't to be considered precedent, like stare decisis is some sort of optional concept, it is a red flag.
This post isn't really about that. We've mostly moved past these bumps.
What this post is about is the existential horror I felt when I drove my mother to a local casino and saw that there is such a thing as a Judge Judy themed slot machine. It isn't like I expect a lot from Judge Judy, but really? No dignity? You really need extra spare change from the slot-jockeys?
It is bad enough that I've been in misdemeanor court before magistrates (in my state a position open to people with no law school education) that think she's a role model rather than just a clown, but slot machines? Really?
Would Judge Wapner do this? I'd hope not.
Or am I overreacting a bit?
The history of the Supreme Court has a few obvious low points. The Dred Scott case. The series of cases where the Court made segregation legal (Plessy), minimized the 14th amendment (The slaughterhouse cases), and killed the Civil Rights act of 1875 (Civil Rights Cases). Bush v. Gore is the latest absurdity, which is probably the third worst of these three judicial debacles but deserves to be on the list just because the opinion was atrocious. Any time a court makes explicit that the reasoning in the opinion isn't to be considered precedent, like stare decisis is some sort of optional concept, it is a red flag.
This post isn't really about that. We've mostly moved past these bumps.
What this post is about is the existential horror I felt when I drove my mother to a local casino and saw that there is such a thing as a Judge Judy themed slot machine. It isn't like I expect a lot from Judge Judy, but really? No dignity? You really need extra spare change from the slot-jockeys?
It is bad enough that I've been in misdemeanor court before magistrates (in my state a position open to people with no law school education) that think she's a role model rather than just a clown, but slot machines? Really?
Would Judge Wapner do this? I'd hope not.
Or am I overreacting a bit?
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1LqAw6Q
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire